Catalytic molecular motors: fuelling autonomous movement by a surface bound synthetic manganese catalase
- 31 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 31,p. 3936-3938
Abstract
A molecular approach to the powering of multi-component nano-devices capable of autonomous translational and rotational motion through the conversion of chemical to kinetic energy is reported.Keywords
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